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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. In the ICU at the bedside? Josh, welcome back to GeriPal. Josh: Thank you, you all. Why was it paradigm shifting for you?

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Why Spiritual Care?

AJN Off the Charts

Across years of conducting mixed-methods research to explore the role of spirituality among people with cancer, I am constantly presented with ways where our connection to spirit is challenged, and ways that we can remain connected amidst the very real pain, challenge, busyness, stress, and burnout of this modern world.